Are these folks miserable because they just threw out their water bottles and hand lotion or because they have to check in at the polls?

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These people are waiting to exercise their constitutional right to vote in the great city of Janesville, Wisconsin.

2. Voting or the airport?

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You’re looking at people line up at the Charles de Gaulle airport outside Paris in the midst of a security officer strike. Feel the joy.

3. Voting or the airport?

Why, would you say that fluorescent lighting and look of abject misery reeks of air travel or democracy?

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Airport

These are the faces of voters at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington D.C. on the great day of November 6, 2012.

4. Voting or the airport?

Think these people have all sorts of liquids in their bags? Or have they just thrown out all their contact solution?

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Their liquids might have been confiscated sinceÂ these people are waiting to board a plane at the Berlin airport.

5. Voting or the airport?

Are these faces of longing concerned about making a flight or making a choice between two presidential candidates?

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If you looked deep into their eyes perhaps you detected that within lies the misery brought on by air travel â€” in this case, at the Charles de Gaulle airport following flight cancellations due to the airport workers’ strike.

6. Voting or the airport?

Is that woman smiling because she’s on her way to a chic tropical vacation or a chic plastic privacy booth?

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She’s obviously filled with the joy brought on by the great American freedom to vote and wait in line to do so. She stands in line in Milford, (Swing State) Virginia.

7. Voting or the airport?

Are these people hitting the polls or getting ready to de-shoe for security?

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These people are leaving Heathrow Airport in London after the Olympics.

8. Voting or the airport?

Are these people getting a caffeine fix in before they only have access to airplane coffee, or just trying to stay awake at a not-very-stimulating pre-office poll stop?

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They’re hitting the polls in the early morning! In Boston, where the temperature is probably somewhere around penguin comfort level.

9. Voting or the airport?

Isn’t it quaint how you can see misery and longing in the backs of people’s heads and bodies? But from where does that miserable longing stem?

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Voting, sillies! This is the scene at a DC polling station.

10. Voting or the airport?

Is this Taylor Swift performing at a polling station or an airport?

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Airport

For some reason she did a concert at JFK airport, which pretty much answers the question of which is worse: the airport or voting. And only you can dig deep and decide how you feel about Taylor Swift and answer that question for yourself.